How do police keep the peace? PPUMP. - Answer✔️✔️-Protecting life and
property
Preventing and detecting crime
Uphold and enforce the law
Maintaining order
Providing social services
What does keeping the peace actually mean? What is the mission and
functions of NSWPF? - Answer✔️✔️-MISSION: The mission of the NSWPF is
to work with the community to reduce violence, crime and fear.
What does Statement of Values provide? - Answer✔️✔️-Provides more
details on guidance on how to fulfill the role of a police officer.
Police officers must embrace and act in accordance with these values,
rather than their own values.
What is the Code of Conduct and Ethics used for? - Answer✔️✔️-Provides
greater detail and clearer guidelines on the conduct required of police in
order to support the statement of values of the NSWPF and Oath of Office.
Helps with what to do and how to do it at ground level.
Assists the professionalism and pride in police work.
What is the Oath of Office used for? - Answer✔️✔️-A legally binding vow
that enables original authority and discretion.
It provides guidance on what to do and how to do it at a high level.
It requires police to keep the peace, impartially to the best of their ability,
faithfully and according to law.
Define Original Authority. - Answer✔️✔️-A constable is appointed at
Common Law, i.e. by the people of NSW, and NOT the government, the
Commissioner of Police etc. This Common Law appointment confers a
large degree of autonomy on the constable to carry out his/her duties of
office as he/she sees fit, though these actions remain accountable (can be
described as an independent exercise of professional judgement based on
the circumstances involved in the incident). There is no master/servant
relationship between a constable and his/her employer, even though the
NSW Police Force is a rank structured organisation
How do police keep the peace? - Answer✔️✔️-Preventing and detecting
crime
Providing social services (Police services)
Uphold and enforce the law
Maintaining order
Protecting life and property
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